Sam Davenport and Ben Short have been named Southern Connecticut Conference Scholar Athletes for the fall sports season. The award is sponsored by SCC partner GreatBlue Research (@GBResearch on twitter). Both Davenport and Short are top students in the senior class at Prep and are multi sport athletes. Davenport is a member of the varsity football and basketball teams, while Short is a member of the cross country and swim teams. Both Davenport and Short are members of the National Honor Society and have been Summa Cum Laude students during their time at Prep. Outside of the classroom and athletics, Davenport is the President of the student government and has been involved in campus ministry program, helping out at school masses. Short is a co-founder of the Plato club. For his community service, Sam has been a youth basketball coach at Wakeman's boys and girls club and has helped mentally and physically handicapped people at the Nutmeg Bowling program. Short works with the elderly at the Benchmark Senior Living facility at Ridgefield Crossings.